Unable to change Home Page in IE7

[seji]

HI,
I changed my home page to

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news

and now it will not change to anything else!
I can select any other site using 'internet options' or the home page drop down fron the toolbar, delete bbc and choose say '

http://www.google.co.uk'and

apply, clear history, clear cookies, clear temp files, and apply and even restart but as soon as I go back into IE7 then the home page has returned to bbc news.
Any clues?
(I am running Win XP pro SP2 + all recommended updates and Internet Explorer 7.0.5730.11)
many thanks,
Seji.

 

[ASG0856]

Have you tried adding another site to the list (so when IE7 opens, it will be with two tabs open), then deleting the BBC link

 

[smah]

Do you have any anti-spyware/anti-malware software installed that might be restricting the ability to change the home page?

 

[seji]

Yes, I tried adding other sites to the list and choosing the new one before deleting the bbc one, it just came back as bbc!

I am running Nod32 anti-virus and Webroot Spysweeper.
I hadn't considered that they may be influencing this problem, I'll try changing sites with one or both disabled for a few minutes.

The problem seems to be common to all 4 of our computers!
more later.

 

[seji]

Thanks Smah,
I shut down Webroot Spysweeper and IE7 accepted the change of home page on the first try!
I started Spysweeper back up and all is working perfectly.
At least I know Spysweeper is doing one of it's jobs, I would have expected some kind of pop up notification that it was blocking a change though.
Many Thanks.
Seji.